Why we keep messing up in the Middle East
Britain’s history of failure in the Middle East is 150 years old. The presence of Britain in the…
Jon Wilson
Big isn’t beautiful: how Labour can learn to love small business
Labour already is a party of small business. We have thousands of members who are self-employed or who…
In remembering the First World War, Labour should say clearly: We are not warriors
98 years before the outbreak of the First World War, the Prussian General Carl von Clausewitz began writing…
It’s not just Ed. Their faith in competition makes all our politicians weird
It’s not just Ed. There’s something profoundly weird about our political class. Labour, LibDem and Tory, politicians seem…
Beware the New, Techno-Nationalist Right
Since being elected Prime Minister of India in May, Narendra Modi’s big idea has been to link every…
How not to sell aeroplanes to India
Mohandas K. Gandhi is being used to sell fighter planes. This government imagines that sticking a statue of…
We have the vision. We need to act as if we believe it
‘After this, nothing happened’. That was how Plenty Coup, leader of the Native American Crow nation saw the…
Let go or lose. Labour can’t win unless it redistributes power
We have, at last, a real battle within the Labour party. It’s not between left and right. It’s…
London must be for Londoners not Kleptocrats
The crisis in Ukraine brings us to the governance of London. For us, citizens of a country whose…
The Floods? Our centralised system of government is to blame
When public officials blame the weather, you know there’s something wrong. When Tory MPs are angry at the…
